/1/ Your sentence « I think she tried to orchestrate some sort of coming out and it backfired badly » caught my attention. Maybe all these years being a fan of Gillian I misunderstood her and all she stands for, but I would have never thought she would « orchestrate » anything with the paps, let alone reveal a new relationship. I cannot imagine her orchestrating such a thing and saying to the paps: « Look, I want to come out with my bf (!!!), let’s make a deal that you follow us around on Monday…

/2/ and Tuesday” and then on Wednesday she thought “OK, I’m safe now, I’m gonna let my bf poke around my intimate parts in public.” She is a 48 y.o. experienced actress and a star, not a naïve young girl. I have no problem whatsoever with her dating whoever she wishes, but this whole mess is so unlike her that I can’t wrap my head around it no matter how much I tried. If you are really becoming OK with it all, then I’m a little jealous.

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This is the only logical explanation I could come up with. In my opinion, the equation is simple. The law here in Europe would have allowed her to sue. But as new papers are printed every week in many different countries with those pictures, it means they’re still for sale, so no one has been sued.

Knowing Gillian, we would have expected her to not let it go so easily, or at least, to throw shade at those paps publicly on Twitter maybe. She did nothing of that, which for me, means she can’t. And if she can’t, it means she has originated it. I think she agreed on some nice pictures walking the street and eating ice-cream, but yes, it backfired. There’s 450 pictures of them during several days with some of them where they look directly at the camera. I don’t see any other explanation than that.

Now they think she’s okay with being followed around and photographed all day, why would they not keep going as she’s back in Italy? It’s not a coincidence, and I think it’ll happen every time she’ll go there. But maybe she will sue the ones who followed her with her kids because it was without her consent. The fact that the pictures aren’t really publicly available so far, and that no one really knows where to find them and where they come from must mean something. If no paper buy and release them, it means she was able to catch them before but couldn’t do anything about the Portofino ones. 

There was an interview in June where she said “there are so many things in this business that can make you feel uncomfortable – you feel you’re selling your soul in a sense. And that makes you feel depleted, that you’re doing things that aren’t genuine.” (source) So maybe that was one of those things and now it’s too late and there’s nothing she can do to fix it.